President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday submitted his written answers to a series of questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller about Trump’s knowledge of the Russian government’s efforts to assist his 2016 White House bid.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday submitted his written answers to a series of questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller about Trump’s knowledge of the Russian government’s efforts to assist his 2016 White House bid.

The inquiries only include a portion of the questions that Mueller has sought to pose to Trump for nearly a year, when he first requested an interview with president. The topics cover activities during the campaign and do not delve into questions about whether Trump has sought to obstruct the probe into Russian interference.

One of Trump’s attorneys said the answers will not provide any great surprises.

“What I can tell you is they’re complete and detailed,” said Rudy Giuliani. “But there’s nothing there I haven’t read in a newspaper.”

The answers represent the first time Trump has given his own version of events to the special counsel’s team in the 11 months ago since Mueller first asked for a sit-down interview with the president.

Mueller was appointed in May 2017 to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Since then, he had indicted or won guilty pleas from four former Trump campaign advisers and charged 12 Russian military officers with hacking Democratic emails that were later released and damaging Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.

The answers cover roughly a dozen questions in five topics about Trump’s campaign and seek to learn Trump’s knowledge about his various campaign advisers’ contacts with Russians. They include asking him about his son Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer to obtain dirt about Hillary Clinton. Trump’s lawyers has so far refused to answer any questions about Trump’s time as president-elect or as president, arguing Mueller is not legally entitled to demand the president’s answers about his decision-making as executive-in-chief.

Trump initially had expressed eagerness to sit down for an interview with Mueller in January of this year, saying he wanted to put to bed false claims that his campaign colluded with the Russian government so he could win the White House. But his lawyers were skeptical that Trump could avoid saying something false or mistaken during an interview, and feared Mueller could accuse him with perjury.

“The President today answered written questions submitted by The Special Counsel’s Office,” Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement. “The questions presented dealt with issues regarding the Russia-related topics of the inquiry. The President responded in writing.”

Giuliani said Trump’s answers represent yet another part of the White House’s “unprecented cooperation” with the Mueller probe.

“It has been our position from the outset that much of what has been asked raised serious constitutional issues and was beyond the scope of a legitimate inquiry. This remains our position today. The President has nonetheless provided unprecedented cooperation. The Special Counsel has been provided with more than 30 witnesses, 1.4 million pages of material, and now the President’s written responses to questions. It is time to bring this inquiry to a conclusion.”